Facebook post blood boiling

[Justinslow]

Blimey!
Facebook is the best!
It's great for "bigging yourself up", "showing off", "giving yourself an ego boost" etc etc etc.

 

[Drago]

Read it again and again, let the rage build and burn in your head, then go see him.

 

[Justinslow]

Read it again and again, let the rage build and burn in your head, then go see him.

No, no, no, just agree and join in like everybody else, it's great!

 

[captain nemo1701]

I'm not on Faceache but occasionally stumble across a stupid comment about cycling on the Bristol-chip-off-Daily-Mail-Post website. Bristol cyclists will know what a toilet roll this rag can be.

However, I was recently enraged by the comment on a girl who was recently assaulted on the Bristol Railway Path by a bloke on a bike:

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/school...h-cycle-path/story-30031020-detail/story.html

The onerous comment is from 'Docklobster' who said all cyclists are child molesters. I reported it as abuse and emailed the paper with my objections to it but of course, they've done F*** all about it. If I said that their employees were a bunch of liars and thieves, it would get take down in minutes. Therefore, I would like to ask my fellow CC'ers if they would be so kind enough to give a quick thumbs down to this moron by clicking on the down thumb symbol. You don't need an account to do it. Lets see if we can give him soooo many negative thumbs. I've given him minus 5 so far.

 

[MontyVeda]

Facebook turns normal people into nobbers. One day, all our politicians and school teachers will have grown up with Facebook, and nobbishness will be normalised.

 

[Justinslow]

It is somewhat ironic that everyone lambasting Facebook are happily typing away on Cyclechat, go figure.

 

[hatler]

I'm not on Faceache but occasionally stumble across a stupid comment about cycling on the Bristol-chip-off-Daily-Mail-Post website. Bristol cyclists will know what a toilet roll this rag can be.

However, I was recently enraged by the comment on a girl who was recently assaulted on the Bristol Railway Path by a bloke on a bike:

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/school...h-cycle-path/story-30031020-detail/story.html

The onerous comment is from 'Docklobster' who said all cyclists are child molesters. I reported it as abuse and emailed the paper with my objections to it but of course, they've done F*** all about it. If I said that their employees were a bunch of liars and thieves, it would get take down in minutes. Therefore, I would like to ask my fellow CC'ers if they would be so kind enough to give a quick thumbs down to this moron by clicking on the down thumb symbol. You don't need an account to do it. Lets see if we can give him soooo many negative thumbs. I've given him minus 5 so far.

I read that comment as a tongue in cheek response to the truly offensive comment immediately above it by usernamegvien.

 

[Brandane]

It is somewhat ironic that everyone lambasting Facebook are happily typing away on Cyclechat, go figure.

The difference being, CycleChat is just a bunch of anonymous people, with a supposedly common interest in cycling. You don't know me and I don't know you. You can pretty much say what you like about other members on here within site rules, and it doesn't transfer into real life. Unless you have chosen to make personal acquaintance with fellow members; in which case - you should have known better!

 

[Will Spin]

New Year's resolution, delete Facebook app from smart phone and iPad...result = bliss.

 

[Brandane]

Read it again and again, let the rage build and burn in your head, then go see him.

 

[Justinslow]

The difference being, CycleChat is just a bunch of anonymous people, with a supposedly common interest in cycling. You don't know me and I don't know you. You can pretty much say what you like about other members on here within site rules, and it doesn't transfer into real life. Unless you have chosen to make personal acquaintance with fellow members; in which case - you should have known better!

True, but most of the confrontation I see on Facebook is not on my "friends" posts but on other groups or pages which tends to swarm huge herds of the same or directly opposing views, rather like us lot arguing about helmets (ahem) or new wheels.

 

[Drago]

Read it again and again, for you are the Angel of Death and the time of reckoning is at hand.

 

[Ed Phelan]

At this point, Facebook only functions as a handy reminder of birthdays. I wouldn't even humour it if I were you, Facebook's intended to showcase the best in people - but does anything but.

 

[winjim]

Facebook's sometimes a bit of fun if I'm bored and fancy a righteous argument. I'm currently involved in a jolly chat with a friend of a friend, a camera cyclist who seems to think he's justified in screaming at nurses and kicking mirrors off cars because the driver is on the phone. Nobody seems to be agreeing with him.

 

[mjr]

Fact or fiction?

Fact, as far as I can tell. Some estimates are that more motorists jump reds than cyclists - and that certainly agrees with what I see around the fens, but we don't have many red lights and many of the ones in towns can be bypassed when cycling. Here's the ever-helpful Bez's summary: http://beyondthekerb.org.uk/laws-whos-breaking-what/

What does Facebook do so well, that you can't do it with email and goodness, gracious the telephone?

You can do it with other methods, but facebook is less pushy than large group emails and cheaper than the telephone. I'm no fan but I can see what it does well - and then once you're on the site, it presents a bottomless pit of updates for you to scroll through, with periodic notification popups to get you clicking through to a new bottomless pit... it's like a forum that behaves like a drug dealer.

At this point, Facebook only functions as a handy reminder of birthdays.

I'm pretty sure I've never told it my birthday. I know it's not hard to find out from official records, but why give it them on a plate?